Aravindra Kirtipati

Aravindra Kirtipati (1701-) was a general of the Maratha Confederacy.

Biography
Aravindra Kirtipati was born in 1701 in Neroon Kot, Sindh in present-day Pakistan, a former part of the Mughal Empire. He was a Muslim, and became a general of the religiously-tolerant Maratha Confederacy in 1742. Kirtipati crushed many rebellions against Maratha rule, mostly religiously-motivated (the Muslim majority revolting against the Hindu minority) and also against industrialization.